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DOCUNINT RISONE ID 102 284 OD 014 872 a Better Chance DOCUNINT RISONE ID 102 284 OD 014 872 TTTLF A Better Chance: Tenth Anniversary Annual Report, 1973. INSTITUTION A Better Chance, Inc., Poston, Mass. PUB DATE 73 NOTE 21p. EDRS PPtCE MF -$O.76 HC-$1.58 PLUS POSTAGE DESCFIPTORS *Annual Reports; Community Involvement; *Compensatory Education Programs; Disadvantaged Youth; Federal Aid; *Financial Support; *High School Students; Participation; Private Financial Support; Program Development; Public Schools; Student Characteristics; Voluntary Agencies IDENTIFIERS *A Better Chance Public School Program ABSTRACT This rep1/4.rt is organized in seven parts. Part 1, "Where have all the students gone?" tells briefly thestories of some of the students from the first class--where they camefrom, where they have been, where they are heading now. Part 2,"Years of Challenge, Years of Change--A Better Chance: thefirst ten years," briefly summarizes the development of the program. Part3, "Development Report," discusses the funding of the programand the role of volunteer associations. Part 4, "PublicSchool Programs," focuses on the problems in establishing a new publicschool program. Part 5, "Student Services," summarizesthe program's capacity to involve parents and the home community as well as to meetthe personal needs of students. Part 6, "ProgramActivities," discusses the new orientation format, day schools, and recruitment.Part 7, "Appendices," includes tables pertaining to newstudents by year of entry, geographical background...otal ABC enrollment by school year, racial background, socinecunomic background, careerchoices of ABC college graduates, history of expenditures, expendituresby source of funds, and expenditures by program area. Alsoincluded are lists of participating independent schools, special honors to ABCgraduates, college and university enrollment of ABC graduates,and donors to A Better Chance as of September 30, 1973.(Author/JM) CO r'J e\J c) BEST COPYAVAILABLE I " '11Ai si. ti ,Ji CZ I ' UT./ p 4 Att I 4). d.4 re have all Ar.4 , 1,14:45J , '7% = I-, Years of Challenge, Years of Change A Better Chance: the first ten years When the first youngsters arrived in Hanover. New Hampshire. for a summer program that was to be their initiation into ABC, they were told: "You've come here to prove you can make it in the best private secondary schools in the country. We've got your return tickets here, and if you're smart you'll get back on the bus and go home... Here you'll have to demonstrate that you want the opportunity for a better education. We'll expect you to work like you've never worked before." Over a period of ten yearsa time of tremendous social changes and political and personal challenges throughout this countryincreasing numbers of youngsters have joined ABC with their eyes on better education, better life options. And very few of them have used those return tickets. It is their self-motivation and determination, their considerable talents, their abiding sense of personal perspective that this Anniversary Annual Report wishes to celebrate. The structural history of a relatively small program like ABC is quickly told. In the beginning the organization consisted of a shared secretary and a full-time director re- cruiting and coordinating under the auspices of the Independent Schools Talent Search Program and Dartmouth College. The object was single-purposed: to place economic- ally disadvantaged youngsters in the finest preparatory schools, and thus provide quali- fications and opportunity for their further education at the college level. This unique idea in education was a response to specific national needs. President Kennedy said in a request to colleges in July 1963: "Equal opportunity for education and for employment is a phrase without meaning unless the individual is prepared to take advantage of it. Young people who have been disadvantaged need special pro- grams..... The history of A Better Chance was also interwoven with the changing national mood of the decade 1964-74. In the early Us there was optimism; genuine integration seemed certain at the end of every march. including the historic march on Washington in 1963. High expectations gave way to violent disillusion and frustration. The minority community began seriously to question the staying power of the good will of the major- ity society. The one constant that kept our students. and ABC. from falling prey to the divisive elements of those times was that indisputably valid goal of quality education and th.: need for minority leadership. ABCs initial administrative expenses were underwritten by the Merrill Trust. The Rockefeller Foundation had funded the first summer Project: A Better Chance. And in 1965 the Ford Foundation gave a three-year grant for establishing a development office. With massive financial hacking from the new Office of Economic Opportunity in 1965, the founding vision dramatically expanded. The establishment of our own devel- opment office made it possible to broaden the base of support and he assured of finan- cial independence from public funding. Assimilation of new ideas began almost immediately. Could the lessons learned from the independent school experience he translated into the language of a different locale? Could another kind of dormitory living, complete with houseparents and resident tu- tors. be established in a public-school community? Could volunteer support substitute a whole range of community resources for the structure of the independent school set- ting? .1 he answer to these questions was the ABC Public School Program. The translation began to work first in liam.:er. New Hampshire. then in Andover, Massachusetts. By 19"3 AB(' had Public School Programs in 29 communities in nine states. As students explored their new educational and social environments. they discovered their own needs for personal reinforcement from ABC. Thus it seemed logical to divert resources from the intensive and expensive summer program to a more long range stu- .3 dent support system through which our students would feel a continuing concernfor their total welfare. The newest dimension of ABC is the incorporation of local volunteersinto ABC groups in a few selected urban areas. Youngcivic leaders in Cleveland, Columbus, Pittsburgh. Philadelphia. Washington, and the Twin Cities, feeling an urgent concern about the future of their cities, have affiliated themselves withABC. They see A Better Chance as an effective program with a dual purposeto provide excellent educationfor youngsters who will in turn, as leaders, play a crucial role intheir community's future. By centering recruitment, student services and fundraising on thesespecific cities ABC intensities and unifies its program, providing students with a strongerlocal net work of parental, volunteer, professional and community involvement. Much of ABCs growth through the years has been in response to the changing needs of its students. But the inner strength of the program has been theability of the stu- dents themselves to cope with the extraordinary social changes of their times, aswell as the enormous economic and cultural differences they encountered atthe independent schools and public school communities. They wrestled with their ownidentity, with alienation, with isolation. They patiently educated us and the affiliatedschools in more effective ways of facing the problems inherent in such a radically different program.It was trial and error, good intentions paving the way tobetter insights. Along the way ABC students said "It was hard but it was worth it ..." "Education got me where I wanted to go..." "Now I hope to use my skills tochange things..." If there is any single attainment commonly shared by our students it is theconfidence to compete for professional roles in society. With thisselfawareness and the education. al requisites, they can now move into economic and social sectors uniquely able tosolve problems on equal terms of preparedness and mutual respect. The essential history of A Better Chance is told not in terms of concepts. orcities, schools, growth. volunteers, funds, or dedicated professionals. The story of ABC,the success of whatever is past, present or future,is with the 3.9(X) youngsters who have made the program work, proved their desire for the best education, anddemonstrated their capacities through their own considerable achievements. itkeec William Berkeley President 5 4 Development Report BEST COPY AVAILABLE For the first time in our history. ABC surpassed the two-million-dollar mark in funds raised Between October 1. 1972. and September 30. 1973 (the end of the fundraising I year). the total of 52.531.257.81. received from both public and private sources, repre- sented a 39.5 percent increase over funds raised the previous year. Termination of Model Cities Programs in June 1974, instead of 1975 as originally provided in its legislation. put considerable stress on the Development staff' and re- quired paring the number of new students entering for the 1973.74 academic year to 525. In spite of the Administration's cut-back in support of educational programs and institutions. ABC succeeded in attracting renewed public funding. A total of S1.206.350. came from the public sector this year. a 2.4 percent increase over last year. Funds raised from private donors signified a tremendous endorsement of ABC: S1.324.901.81. an increase of 63.1 percent. The principal source was old donors mak- ing new grants: 45 corporations, twenty foundations and seven individuals gave a total of $1.03172. Rivhard ( Seventy-one corporations gave a total of 5468,1440 in new money. Foundation support totaled $,98.547. Fewer foundations contributed, but the average gift size was $28,519, 11%/. the linVA b of New York that di- considerably larger than last year. rected Richa.q Griffinwinner of the Individual support (38 individuals) came to $57.267 and included 31 new donors. (lab. William Hale Harkness citizenship The evolution of local volunteer organizations in certain key cities is critically impor- and leadership award 1(1.4 Herter Chance. tant to the development aspect of A Better Chance.
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